That attack, which Wahlberg carried out at the age of 16, in 1989, reportedly left the victim, Hoa Trinh, blind in one eye. Wahlberg told the audience that he learned Trinh’s injuries were sustained more than a decade before the attack, when he met the family to apologize this year.

“I was relieved to find out that the injuries to his eye had occurred in the early ’70s and not from the incident that happened that night,” Wahlberg said. “But I was able to meet with him and his wife and his daughter and apologize for those horrific acts. Some good did come out of it.”